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Turkey: Thirteen more academics and journalists arrested (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News November 16, 2018

The authorities said that those arrested were being questioned over their links to the Anadolu Kültür association, founded by the detained civil society leader Osman Kavala.
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